The current focus of my research program is to discover the cellular, molecular, and mathematical basis underlying the growth patterns of malignant brain tumors, and the interactions between cancer cells with the tumor microenvironment, in both experimental models and in human patients suffering from malignant brain tumors. Based on our most recent discoveries we are now very interested in using nantotechnology to target the brain blood vessels surrounding brain tumors, as these would be the most important targets to destroy to reduce invasion of brain tumors.

I will bring to MNIMBS the establishment of joint ventures and new technological developments to create therapeutic approaches for the treatment of deadly brain tumors, by merging our most recent pathophysiological understanding of cancer growth and dispersion with nanotechnological approaches to target the structures we know are central to brain tumor invasion. In summary, I can provide new disease models that can be targeted with nanotechnology.